How to be great again: Europe’s right-wing must form a cohesive vision
Barely a week goes by where there is not another “Make Europe Great Again” event somewhere on the old continent.
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Despite Trump’s win, Europe’s populist wave is more vulnerable than ever
One of history’s most powerful drivers of change is the so-called law of unintended consequences.
Focus moves on to Timmermans’ honorary degrees after ‘shadow lobbying’ scandal
Former Brussels 'green' chief Frans Timmermans received an honorary doctoral degree from the Dutch Technical University of Delft after the European Commission authorised…
Barbados coalition: Immigrant violence forces Merz to ‘tolerate’ AfD votes
German political elites like to label their multi-party coalitions by flags which contain the colours of the parties that comprise them.
Immigration: the American state comes first, no more ‘pathololgical altruism’
While I agree with the premise that Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will be a good thing for the United States, I am a little less sanguine about what…
Slovak opposition accuses PM Fico of mulling EU exit
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has faced criticism over his apparent ambiguity regarding Slovakia's membership of the European Union.
Europe as the Cold War order dies: stagnating, fading, failing, lost
Out of the many actions President Donald Trump took on his first day in office, two caught the eyes of Europeans: his announced withdrawal from both the Paris Climate…
EPP wants EU’s ‘bureaucracy burden’ cut to boost competitiveness
The European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has sounded an alarm regarding what it saw as the European Union’s regulatory…
Imperialism not a replacement for good governance, it is its consequence
In this third and final part of our series on neo-Imperialism I would like to start with the most important observation: Successful and lasting imperialism is a…
NGOs gained influence under von der Leyen, while companies lost theirs
NGOs had much more contact with the European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen, compared with her predecessor Jean-Claude Juncker.
What did European liberals ever get from trusting Joe Biden?
Next week American President-elect Donald Trump will drop the “elect,” and President Joe Biden will pick up "former” before his name.
Power transfer: Poland’s Morawiecki replaces Meloni as ECR head
Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki replaced Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as president of the EU's European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)…
Brussels fears Musk, he fights the ancient fight for free speech
The Brussels elite have contended they are defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism at home and abroad.
Censorship fog descends on Europe, world cut off
A performative fury erupted across Europe when the dread Elon Musk not only endorsed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), but agreed to host an extended interview…
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EU Socialists demand crackdown on Musk’s ‘manipulation’ of European politics
Europe's Socialist parties are urging the EU to act against Elon Musk's X platform, citing concerns over his alleged manipulation of politics and support for far-right…
Von der Leyen axes appointments over ‘severe pneumonia’
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has cancelled several engagements planned for the first two weeks on January after contracting "severe pneumonia",…
The EU in 2025: A union at the crossroads of chaos
The year is 2025. Europe’s grand experiment is not looking so grand anymore.
EU leads to the Molenbeek Fallacy: luscious benefits but no national pride
The good secular rationalists who founded the European project after the horrors of the Second World War believed that political stability could be restored by meeting…
Poland assumes Council of EU presidency with focus on security and migration
Poland has assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, marking the end of Hungary's six-month tenure.
EU forces 10-year-old USB-C charging point on everything mobile
The European Union’s imposition of the USB-C charging port on all items that make modern life possible, and yes explicitly including handheld mobile phones, portable…
Hungary loses €1 billion in EU funds for ‘political reasons’
Hungary will permanently lose €1 billion in European Union funds that had to be allocated by the end of 2024 or be lost.
In the Middle East this time, it is all different: Trump is back
Just twenty years ago this week, the world’s greatest scholar of Islam, Sir Martin Gilbert, wrote of George W Bush and Tony Blair that they “may well, with the…
Facing elections, Polish PM Tusk vows to use EU Council term to derail EC chief von der Leyen
As Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk prepares to take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on January 1, he has signalled he will…
MEP Fidias accuses EU of silencing voices under ‘disinformation pretext’
The Cypriot social media influencer-turned-MEP Fidias Panayiotou has fought for "free speech" in the European Parliament during a plenary debate on online misinformation…
EU must rebuild Syria or Syrian immigrants will stay in Europe
Thirty-three years ago, Jacques Poos, President of the Council of the EU, announced that the impending civil war in Yugoslavia was “Europe’s hour” to take…
Kallas wants US to be afraid of Russia, but can’t even get Europe to be afraid of Russia
The European Union has no “foreign minister.
Syria, a Petrie dish of rapine and warring baronies
Dystopia was once upon a time a filmic theme park, wherein a director could imagine all sorts of random tyrannies and arbitrary agents of terror.
EU does not want a member state in Georgia, it wants a client state
If you would hear it from the liberal internationalists, the battle for the future of democracy is being fought in Tbilisi.
Money laundering allegedly tied to ex-justice Commissioner dodges new EU regulation
The apparent money laundering scheme that has been allegedly connected to former European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders uniquely does not fall under EU…
US Democrats ‘openly talk about using EU law to censor Americans’, claims Shellenberger
US Democrats "openly talk" about using the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) legislation to censor Americans, journalist and free speech activist Michael…